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Smith Presents V-Day with Individual Flair

On the evening of February 12, in a Valentine's Day rite that has become almost as prevalent as red roses and chocolate hearts at college campuses across the country, Smith will celebrate V-Day with a showing of Eve Ensler's neo-feminist classic, "The Vagina Monologues.

MFA Thesis Concert This Weekend

Students who take dance classes will have the opportunity to see their instructors perform this weekend. Second-year graduate students in Smith's MFA program will perform their thesis work in a concert by the Smith dance program Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.

It's Only Rock and Roll

El Pus Lives Up to the Hype
The beginning of a promotional article in "Fader" on Atlanta-based band El Pus reads "Rockstars, punks, rappers," which I suppose is their intended audience. The band was started by MCs Cufi and Cosmo, originally from Houston, and was discovered by Speech, the former front-man for ''90s hip-hop outfit Arrested Development.

Le Tigre to Perform at Smith

The feminist pop-punk band Le Tigre will perform at Smith on March 1 in the Campus Center Carroll Room at 8 p.m. The groups Lesbians on Ecstasy and hey willpower will open. Le Tigre is made up of Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD Samson. Members of the New York-based band do not have a fixed role in each song, but rather they alternate between beat-making, lyric-writing and video-editing, and playing various instruments on stage.